-- Passing: L.A. architect Stephen Kanner, who co-founded the Architecture and Design Museum, has died at age 54. (Los Angeles Times)

-- Also in the L.A. Times: The annual New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park is besieged by a severe heat wave; readers want the San Diego Union-Tribune to reinstate its recently laid-off art critic Robert Pincus.

-- David Ng

Photo: A scene from "South Pacific" at the Ahmanson Theatre, with Carmen Cusack and Matthew Saldivar. Credit: Bret Hartman / For The Times